Asked the City Manager to confer with the Director of the Animal Commission to review its policies regarding urban wildlife management, to develop a plan that is responsive to the reintroduction of native animals to the urban ecosystem, and to provide guidance to residents unsure of how to mitigate the nuisance from certain species

How it started

Sep 18, 2017 · Proposed by Councillor Craig A. Kelley: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Sep 18, 2017 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Craig A. Kelley; carried on a voice vote.

by substitution

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Sep 18, 2017, p. 18.

Sep 18, 2017 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one not recorded)

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Present and voting at this meeting (8)

David Maher
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Leland Cheung
Marc McGovern
Nadeem Mazen
Timothy J. Toomey

Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions. No member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2017 #298 (Nov 13, 2017).

The document a council order

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City of Cambridge

IN CITY COUNCIL

September 18, 2017

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with the Director of the Animal Commission to review its policies regarding urban wildlife management, to develop a plan that is responsive to the reintroduction of native animals to the urban ecosystem, and to provide guidance to residents unsure of how to mitigate the nuisance from certain species.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Sep 18, 2017